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Queering Easter: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Redefine Sainthood

By Susan Henking

…f queer nuns. Since our first appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday, 1979, the Sisters have devoted ourselves to community service, ministry, and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity, and spiritual enlightenment. We believe all people have a right to express their unique joy and beauty and we use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency, and guilt that chain the hu…

How Mormon is Mitt Romney? Over 50 Jokes For Trump

By Joanna Brooks

…heart attacked Rick Perry. Mitt is so Mormon that he’s going to rename the 101st Airborne as “The Stripling Warriors.” Mitt is so Mormon, he won’t deport illegal aliens, he’ll just disfellowship them. Mitt is so Mormon, he’ll rename FEMA the Federal Relief Society. Mitt is so Mormon he’ll start his acceptance speech with “I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.” Mitt is so Mormon that if elected he’ll require every state…

Chilean Mine Rescue: Largest Global Spiritual Event Ever?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…orms were likewise inundated, with an overall increase in online traffic of 15 to 20 percent, according to Web monitoring services. And, what’s more, they did so over the course of a 23-hour drama that allowed the event to engage viewers across a world clock. As the final miners reached the surface, online viewership topped more than four million page views per minute. While World Cup soccer and Wimbledon matches broadcast online simultaneously la…

New Poll Reveals a Paradox in Evangelical Support for Donald Trump

By Daniel Schultz

…enthusiasts get too excited by this number I would point out that, for a fair number of evangelicals, the worry is that the state will interfere with the church, not the other way around. Similarly, a little more than one in four White evangelicals said the federal government should declare Christianity the official religion of the United States. Far more (61%) said that Christianity should not be the official religion, but that government should…

The Benedict Opt-Out: Why Christian Self-Isolation Won’t Work

By Kaya Oakes

…to help maintain faith in difficult circumstances, but, like an increasing number of younger Americans, she often finds friendship and spiritual kinship among “those who aren’t Catholic or even religious in any way.” The homeschooling parents I spoke to had a range of reasons for choosing to educate their own children. Most cited a poor quality of education in their local public schools, but others echoed some of Dreher’s ideas about withdrawal as…

From Pastor to Harvard’s ‘Godless Church’ Planter

By Becky Garrison

…s a place where they could connect with other clergy persons. Over the past 18 months, I’ve developed a number of relationships with people who contact me because they find themselves in a similar situation. They ask questions, I don’t push. I’m simply a listening ear…someone safe for them to talk to. What was the response to your coming out as an atheist? An enormous number of Christians have threatened to do physical harm to me. Many others hav…

New Poll Finds “Growing Appetite” for Mixing Religion and Politics

By Sarah Posner

…up 19 points since 2009. Among white Catholics, the percentage jumped from 17% in 2009 to 36% in 2014. But only 16% of Hispanic Catholics see the Obama administration as “unfriendly” to religion. In other words, the discontent is concentrated among white conservative religious voters. Seventy-two percent of white evangelicals identify with the Republican Party. In the poll, they expressed dissatisfaction with the way the party is representing the…

The Religious Mourning of ‘Saint’ Kobe Bryant Continues

By Terry Shoemaker

…year’s All-Star game, one team wore Kobe’s number 24, while the other wore number 2, Gianna’s uniform number. The MVP award, given this year to Los Angeles Clippers’ star forward Kawhi Leonard, was renamed permanently for Kobe Bryant. Pregame and half-time shows centered on Kobe, his family, and his impact on the sport of basketball and society. The collective grief and bereavement displayed by fans and players alike not only demonstrate the power…

Can The Religious Left Be Effective Again? Longer Answer: Quizás

By Daniel Schultz

…panic churches that participated in a demonstration or march increased from 1 percent to 17 percent. Even though participation rates are increasing among these types of churches, they represent a small percentage of all churches. Fulton explains that a lot of this increase is due to the debates over immigration reform; but even factoring that in, Hispanic churches are becoming more politically active. The number of congregations might be few, but…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ions, and is based on financial information garnered from Internal Revenue Service Form 990. Financials weren’t the only thing Church & State took into account: It “also attempted to determine the influence organizations have on the larger political scene.” AU’s research indicates that a number of religious right organization are more than adequately prepared to wage many a culture war battle in the coming years—whether from inside or outside the…